Cutting performances : collage events, feminist artists, and the American avant-garde / James M. Harding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harding, James Martin, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance

Theater : theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theater.

Experimental theater.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 222 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cutting Performances challenges four decades of scholarship by offering a provocative reconceptualization of the history of American avant-garde performance along feminist lines. Focusing on five women artists (Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Gertrude Stein, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, and Valerie Solanas) whose performance aesthetics made prominent use of collage techniques, James M. Harding sheds light on the cultural history of the avant-garde and the role that experimental women artists played in that history. He investigates the prominent position that collage technique occupied within the artists' performance aesthetic, and the decisively feminist inflection that their work gives to collage as a mode of avant-garde expression. Cutting Performances not only challenges assumptions that have governed scholarship on the American avant-garde but also establishes a context to rethink the history of American avant-garde performance along feminist lines. Book jacket.

Contents:

Toward a feminist historiography of American avant-garde performance: theories and contexts

Nude descending Bleecker Street: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and performing gender in New York dada

Avant-garde performance, collage aesthetics, and feminist historiographies in Gertrude Stein's the mother of us all

Between material and matrix: Yoko Ono's cut piece and the unmaking of collage

Between dialectics, decorum, and collage: sabotaging Schneemann at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress, London 1967

Forget fame: Valerie Solanas, the simplest surrealist act, and the (re)assertion of avant-garde priorities

Conclusion: Collage and community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 215-222).

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472029006

0472029002

Access Restriction:

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